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New hope in anti-apartheid activist Rick Turner’s murder investigation

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JerryJanuary 9, 2023

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Rick Turner’s family believes that the truth may come out, 45 years after the academic was assassinated(Photograph courtesy of the Helen Joseph collection at the Historical Papers Research Archive of the University of the Witwatersrand)

Forty-five years after the murder of anti-apartheid activist Rick Turner, fresh evidence has given his family new hope that the truth about who shot him dead on 8 January 1978 will finally be uncovered — along with who gave the order.

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JerryJanuary 9, 2023

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Jerry is a copy writer at African Alert [AFAL]. Aside from general news, Jerry is an experienced creator and web content expert who loves to spend his time telling African-centric stories, most times, in text.